DevLearn 2009: The Three Things Shanta Rohse Learned
When Shanta Rohse tweeted about her experiences at DevLearn 2009, I asked her to write a guest blog post with more details, which she kindly did: Each morning at DevLearn09, Brent Schlenker primed his audience with a deceptively simple question: […]
Happy Thanksgiving and Thanks to and from Our Readers
Happy Thanksgiving! If you want to learn about the day that later became known as the First Thanksgiving, see Plimoth Plantation’s Online Learning Center. Lynne Spichiger and I wrote Back to the Future: Multiple Perspectives on Historical Exhibits which includes […]
Allan Collins on Jenna McWilliams’ review of Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology
I asked Allan Collins, who wrote Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology with Richard Halverson, what he thought of Jenna McWilliams’ review. He responded, What a curious reading of our book! Most people come away from the book and […]
Celebrate National Distance Learning Week with a Seminar
This week is National Distance Learning Week. According to the USDLA, Currently, over 3.5 million college students are taking online course and/or earning online college degrees. At the secondary school level, over 700,000 high school students are taking one or […]
Rename #lrnchat #lrnparty
Last night’s #lrnchat seemed to have even more participants than previous ones, including the one described in eLearn Magazinee by Dave Ferguson and Christy Pettit. It felt more like a cocktail party – with a mention of drinks even. But […]